/dev directory deleted accidentally

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

Is there any way to recover/recreate /dev directory?

We have ignite and DP backups.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

Carles

[MarkSyder]

Unless you backup /dev to DP I fear that ignite is your only option.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Yang Qin_1 · Accepted solution]

If you have ignite tape you can restore /dev with the tape. The archive is at 2nd part on the tape (first part is system configure) so you need "rewin" your tape to the 2nd part then run tar command to restore /dev

#mt -t /dev/rmt/#mn fsf 1
#cd /
#tar xfv /dev/rmt/#mn /dev

If you have a Ignite image (on disk), it is a gzipped tar you can run gzcat + tar

#cd /
#gzcat /xx/yy/ignite_image|tar xfv - /dev

Good luck
Yang

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

Finally I restored /dev directory from DP.
Thanks to all for your help.

Regards,

Carles